Virginia Foster age 69, died Friday, November 9, 2018 at University Hospital, Iowa City following a brief illness.

Graveside Services will be held 12:30 Saturday morning, November 17, 2018 at the Oakwood Cemetery. Friends may call from 10:00 until 12 noon, Saturday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. Memorials may be made to the U of I Hospital.

Surviving are 7 children, Anne Hurt, Christine Hurt, Tara Mann, Amanda Tuetken, Dan (Angie) Foster, Debbra (Kevin) Herbert, Wendy (Mark) LeMense, 6 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren and many brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents, her best friend and loving husband, John, 2 sons, Johnny and Brett her brother, Edwyn Fear and her sister, Janice Neybert.

Virginia Gail Moncrief was born February 15, 1949 in Monticello, Iowa. She was the daughter of Curtis and Una Bacon, Moncrief. Virginia received her education the Monticello Community Schools. She married Charles Hurt and had 2 daughters, she married Michael Mann and had 2 more daughters, she married John Foster and gained a son and 2 daughters.

As a teenager she worked as a waitress in Bob Loomis's Café in Monticello. In her adult life she worked as a dispatcher for the Monticello Police Department, for Lewis Systems as a secretary and at the Monti Motel and Loops Motel in housekeeping.   She spent the majority of time raising her family.   In more recent years Virginia cleaned for Tri-County Bank, Frank N. Magid, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Rectory and also in private homes.

She enjoyed planting flowers, playing cards, cross stitch, crocheting, reading, adult coloring books and her pets.

The visitation and service will be for both Virginia and her husband John who died in 2013.